went hand in hand. It was even worse knowing that she was
 
 pissed at the fact that she knew it was really not a very pretty
 
 thing to be doing. And she cared. Frick anyway.
 
 “I’ll second that,” Dallas said softly. She was so calm and
 
 rational that it was slightly maddening.
 
 “I’ll third it.”
 
 “You firsted it so…”
 
 “I should get two votes.”
 
 “Alright. Then it’s decided. He sucks.”
 
 “He was more interested in checking me out than in doing
 
 any paperwork.”
 
 “That’s because…” Dallas trailed off. Or cut herself off.
 
 “Never mind. I could kick his butt if you wanted me to.”
 
 “Ha! I’d like to see that. You’d get thrown in jail. And
 
 you’d never get that money.”
 
 “You’d like that though. You’d think it was the perfect
 
 justice.”
 
 Quinn felt the anger seeping out of her. She felt like a
 
 deflated balloon. The gross kind. The kind that gets all
 
 slobbered on and wrinkly after a few times of being blown up
 
 and deflated. She kind of felt like she’d done the whole wild
 
 ride around the room, bouncing this way and that before the
 
 deflating, wrinkling bit happened.
 
 “Should we go back in there?” Dallas asked. She wasn’t
 
 pressing or pressuring. She was leaving it up to Quinn.
 
 “I- I guess so.”
 
 “Maybe I should call. Maybe Jim has other appointments.”
 
 “Good idea.”
 
 Dallas got out her phone. She made a face, said yes a ton
 
 of times, finished with “that’ll work,” and hung up.